uncherished

Example Sentences

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I recalled lost relatives, uncherished in their time and therefore a source of belated, worthless grief, and first loves, unrequited and now sweetly recollected.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2016

For fifteen years, over what is, in fact, two generations in tennis, Williams has been a spectacular and constant and yet oddly uncherished national treasure.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2014

Surely the representation of an uncherished filling is not more odious than mankind.

From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude

On their commencing their chanting, the men came forward, emerging from the darkness into the obscure light shed by the yet uncherished fires, like spectres.

From Expedition into Central Australia by Sturt, Charles

We must go through life unloved and uncherished, bringing princes into the world, seeing happiness and love just beyond our reach all the time.

From The Man from Brodney's by McCutcheon, George Barr